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This article is an update version of my previous article CY13-Q2 Community Analysis — OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus vs CloudStack. Readers who are intested in further discussions please contact me via email at the above-mentioned address.
A Chinese version of this article is published at the same time, which can be found at CY13-Q3 OpenStack, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus, CloudStack社区活跃度比较.
It should be noted that this community analysis project was initiated in CY11-Q4, and this particular report is the 8th quarterly report being published since. The author served shortly as the Director of Customer Success in China for Eucalyptus Systems Inc during October 2012 and July 2013. However, the opinion presented in this report belongs strictly to the author rather than any current or previous employer of the author.
The objective of this article is to compare the OpenStack, OpenNebula, Eucalytpus and CloudStack user and developer communities, base on the communications between community members in the form of mailing lists or pubic forum discussions. The data being discussed include the total number of topics (threads), messages (posts), and participants (unique email addresses or registered members). To obtain the above-mentioned data, a Java program was written to retrieve all the forum posts and mailing list messages into a MySQL database for further processing. The analysis results were presented in the form of graphs generated by LibreOffice.
Starting from CY13-Q2, the OpenStack project kicked off the Ask.OpenStack discussing forum, which is now included as a data source for this analysis. It should be noted that there exists significant membership overlap between Ask.OpenStack and other OpenStack mailing lists and forums. In this CY13-Q3 report we carried out some preliminary de-duplication efforts for this data source, but certain amount of double counting still exists.
The Apache CloudStack graduated from the Apache incubator in CY13-Q2. The names of their mailing lists changed a little bit, but the membership and discussion scope remained the same. It should be noted that before this change there were a significant amount of message in the incubator-cloudstack-dev mailing list that were auto-generated by JIRA. Such messages became a lot less in the new cloudstack-dev mailing list. However, we still keep our previous filtering settings, which excludes any messages with "[jira]" in their topic.
Figure 1 and 2 represent the monthly number of topics (threads) and posts (messages). It can be seen that
(1) During the past 12 months, OpenStack-related discussions and CloudStack-related discussions were approximately on the same level, while Eucalyptus-related discussions and OpenNebula-related discussions were approximately on the same level.
(2) During the past 12 months, the volume of OpenStack and CloudStack related discussions were much higher than that of Eucalyptus and OpenNebula.
Generally speaking, the number of replies to a specific topic represents the attention being received, and the depth of discussion for that particular topic. When the number of master posts (the original post that started a particular topic) is more than the number of replies, it is safe to conclude that the participation of the forum or mailing list is very low. Therefore, the ratio between "the number of posts" and "the number of topics" represents the participation rate of an online community. In this study we call this ratio the Participation Ratio.
As can be seen from Figure 3, during the past 12 months the participation ratios of CloudStack and Eucalyptus were relatively higher, which were close to 4; the participation ratios of OpenStack and OpenNebula were relatively lower, which were a little bit higher than to 2.
We do notice that the concept of "participation ratio" generated some disagreements. Some people think that a lower "post-to-thread ratio" represents the ability to resolve problems in a very short time, therefore only a very limited number of discussions are needed. Some people think that a higher "post-to-thread ratio" might be an indicator that the community are on flame, and during a flame a large portion of the posts might be off-topic. Anyway, we agree that when we call this parameter "participation ratio" it somewhat represents our own opinion and it undermines the objectiveness of this report. However, because we do not find a better name to represent this parameter, we will just use it for the time being. (Dear readers, you are more than welcome to contribute a better name for this parameter.)
Figure 4 shows the number of monthly participants of the four projects being discussed. It can be seen that the number of active participants of OpenStack is much higher than the other three projects. The number of active participants of CloudStack is also significantly higher than OpenNebula and Eucalyptus. During the past 12 months, the number of active participants for OpenStack and CloudStack were growing steadily, while the number of active participants for Eucalyptus and OpenNebula exhibited no significant growth.
It should be noted that although the number of active participants of the CloudStack project is somewhat smaller than that of the OpenStack project, both projects have approximately the same amount of discussions (as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2).
Accumulated Community Population refers to the total number of users and developers who have participated in forum or mailing list discussions. (This number does not include those who have registered into discussion forums or mailing lists but have never participated in any open discussions.) These are people who have tested or used a specific product for a while, but not necessary currently an active user.
Figure 5 shows the growth of the accumulated community populations of these 4 projects. Currently OpenStack has the larges accumulated community population, followed by Eucalyptus, CloudStack, and OpenNebule.
The problem is, after years of changes, a long-term (such as 4 to 5 years) accumulated community population might not be a good reference for community activeness. Some of the early members of one community might have switched to other communities (and probably more than once), some of the early community medium (such as mailing lists and forums) might have become EOL'ed. From a community analysis point of view, it might be better to count the accumulated community population of the past 6 to 12 months, while extending the range to the dinosaurs age will make this parameter meaningless.
Figure 6 shows the monthly population growth of the four projects being discussed. During the past 6 months, the populations of OpenStack is growing much faster than the other three projects. CloudStack is also exhibiting significant growth, but not as fast as OpenStack.
The populations of Eucalyptus and OpenNebula are growing at relatively slow paces, as compared to CloudStack and OpenStack.
Figure 7 is a combination of Figure 4 and Figure 6. The solid lines represent the monthly participants, while the dash lines represent the monthly new members.
During the past 12 months, for OpenStack and CloudStack, around 30% of their monthly participants are new members. For OpenNebula and Eucalyptus, around 50% of their monthly participants are new members. This indicates OpenStack and CloudStack communities are becoming more "sticky" than OpenNebula and Eucalyptus communities.
Figure 8 shows the total community population, active participants of the past quarter, and active participants of the past month, of the four projects being discussed. It can be seen that
(1) OpenStack has the largest total population, followed by Eucalyptus, CloudStack, and OpenNebula;
(2) OpenStack has the largest active population during the past quarter, followed by CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula;
(3) OpenStack has the largest active population during the past month, followed by CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula.
We also calculated the ratio of active population during the past quarter over total population. The result is 36.3% for OpenStack, 24.2% for CloudStack, 11.8% for OpenNebula, and 4.3% for Eucalyptus. Obviously a significant portion of OpenStack and CloudStack users choose to stay, while the majority of Eucalyptus users decide to leave. Such observation is in accordance with what we saw in Figure 7 - OpenStack and CloudStack communities are more "sticky" than OpenNebula and Eucalyptus communities.
In our CY12-Q3 report, we invented the concept of "Community Activeness Index". Starting from CY13-Q3, we make some minor revision to this parameter, and it is now the combination of the following parameters:
(1) quarterly messages, which represents the volume of the discussions;
(2) quarterly participation ratio, which represents the average number of answers to a question; and
(3) active population of the past quarter, which represents the possibility to get help from community in the long term.
In this analysis, we choose the average values of these parameters as the reference data set, and compare the corresponding parameters of each community with the reference data set. Then we call the sum of the relative values of a community the "community activeness index" of the community. Now we can say the project with the highest "community activeness index" is THE most active project in this area.
As can be seen from Figure 9, OpenStack is currently THE most active project (with obvious advantage), followed by CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula.
We are seeing increasing number of suggestions to analyze the git activities of these open source IaaS projects. We also noticed that all of these four projects use git as the SVM for their source code. Starting from our CY13-Q1 report, we tried to do some basic analysis base on the git log data. It should be noted that for the OpenStack project, the data source includes all the sub-projects under openstack (57 sub-projects) and openstack-infra (33 sub-projects) on github.com.
In our CY13-Q1 report, we used "git log" to obtain log information. Starting from CY13-Q2, we will use "git log –no-merges" to obtain log information.
Figure 10 shows the monthly number of commit operations for these four projects. Generally speaking, the commit frequency of OpenStack is much higher than the commit frequencies of the other three projects. This is because the data source for OpenStack includes a total number of 90 sub-projects, which is far greater than the other three projects. The commit frequency of CloudStack is also significantly higher than Eucalyptus and OpenNebula. As compared to OpenNebula, Eucalyptus was also committing more frequently, but with significant fluctuations from month to month, which seems to be a typical batch-commit behavior. The commit frequency of the OpenNebula project is relatively small, with an average of 200 commits per month.
Figure 11 shows the monthly number of commit operations for the sub-projects of OpenStack. Generally speaking, the commit frequency of the Nova sub-project is about 3 times as high as the other sub-projects. It should be noted that although the commit frequency of these sub-projects are different, but they exhibit similar time-series curves, and their highs and lows occur at the same period of time. This indicates that although these sub-projects are relatively independent, but they work around the same development plan and the same release schedule. This is an indicator that the OpenStack project is well organized in terms of sub-project management.
Figure 12 shows the monthly number of contributors (identified by unique github.com accounts or email addresses) for these projects. Generally speaking, the number of OpenStack contributors is much higher than the other three projects, and is growing rapidly. The number of CloudStack contributors also exhibits some growth, but the growth is relatively slow. The number of Eucalyptus and OpenNebula contributors is relatively small, and does not exhibit growth during the past 12 months.
Figure 13 shows the monthly number of contributors (identified by unique github.com accounts) for the sub-projects of OpenStack. It can be seen that the number of Nova contributors is about 3 times as big as the other sub-projects.
People usually try to identify the institute to which a contributor belongs to by his/her email address. It is true that such method is defect in nature (different institutes have different policies regarding contributing to open source projects, some institutes even encourage their employees to contribute to open source projects with their personal account), but still this parameter can be used to show the contributions of certain institutes to certain open source projects. Figure 14 shows the monthly number of unique institutes (identified by the domain name of the contributor's email address) contributing to these projects. We can see that the number of contributing institutes for OpenStack is much larger than the other three projects, and is growing rapidly. The number of contributing institutes for CloudStack is also growing, but at a relatively slow pace. The number of contributing institutes to Eucalyptus and OpenStack is relatively small, and does not exhibit any growth during the past 12 months.
Figure 15 shows the monthly number of contributing institutes to the sub-projects of OpenStack. It can be seen that the number of contributing institutes for Nova is about 3 times as big as the other sub-projects.
The following table lists those institutes that make the most contributions to these projects during CY13-Q3, according to the number of commit operations, along with the percentage of their commit operations. It can be seen that both Eucalyptus and OpenNebula are open source projects dominated by single institutes, while CloudStack and OpenStack are open source projects contributed by multiple institutes. For the CloudStack projects, influence from Citrix is still quite obvious, over 48% of the commits come from accounts belonging to citrix.com and cloud.com (3% decrease as compared to CY13-Q2). For the OpenStack project, redhat.com contributed to 15% of the commits, while ibm.com contributed 11% of the commits, hp.com contributed 5% of the commits, rackspace.com contributed 4% of the commits, and mirantis.com contributed 4% of the commits.
CloudStack | Eucalyptus | OpenNebula | OpenStack | ||||
Domain | % | Domain | % | Domain | % | Domain | % |
citrix.com | 46 | eucalyptus.com | 50 | opennebula.org | 99.4 | redhat.com | 15 |
apache.org | 23 | gmail.com | 40 | gmail.com | 0.3 | gmail.com | 14 |
gmail.com | 12 | brainfood.com | 8 | tobru.ch | 0.3 | ibm.com | 11 |
leaseweb.com | 3 | fedoraproject.org | 1 | openstack.org | 6 | ||
cloud.com | 2 | hp.com | 5 | ||||
schubergphilis.com | 2 | rackspace.com | 4 | ||||
clogeny.com | 2 | mirantis.com | 4 | ||||
widodh.nl | 1 | inaugust.com | 2 | ||||
betterservers.com | 0.6 | suse.de | 2 | ||||
ianduffy.ie | 0.6 | enovance.com | 1 |
The following table lists those institutes that make the most contributions to the sub-projects of OpenStack during CY13-Q3, along with the percentage of their commit operations. We notice that UnitedStack – a nascent cloud computing startup – is making significant contributions to almost all aspects of OpenStack. We also notice that Intel is beginning to contribute code to OpenStack. We all know that Intel is a firm supporter of OpenStack since the formation of the OpenStack project. In the early days Intel used to maintain a fork of an earlier version of OpenStack, which prevented Intel from contributing to the mainstream. Obviously the Intel folks now realize that it is better to join the mainstream than working on an in-house version of OpenStack.
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Domain | % | Domain | % | Domain | % | Domain | % |
ibm.com | 14 | rackspace.com | 22 | da.jp.nec.com | 17 | ibm.com | 33 |
hp.com | 14 | gmail.com | 21 | redhat.com | 15 | gmail.com | 12 |
gmail.com | 9 | ibm.com | 18 | gmail.com | 13 | redhat.com | 11 |
solidfire.com | 8 | hp.com | 9 | hp.com | 11 | metacloud.com | 7 |
mirantis.com | 7 | redhat.com | 7 | mirantis.com | 7 | 99cloud.net | 5 |
intel.com | 7 | intel.com | 3 | metacloud.com | 4 | hp.com | 4 |
openstack.org | 6 | dmllr.de | 2 | strikeawe.com | 3 | marantis.com | 3 |
redhat.com | 4 | 99cloud.net | 2 | gmx.de | 2 | inaugust.com | 3 |
unitedstack.com | 3 | outlook.com | 2 | b1-systems.de | 2 | openstack.org | 3 |
canonical.com | 3 | canonical.com | 1 | unitedstack.com | 1 | unitedstack.com | 2 |
Nova | Neutron | Swift | |||||
Domain | % | Domain | % | Domain | % | ||
ibm.com | 26 | gmail.com | 19 | gmail.com | 36 | ||
redhat.com | 14 | openstack.org | 16 | redhat.com | 20 | ||
gmail.com | 11 | nicira.com | 11 | swiftstack.com | 8 | ||
mirantis.com | 6 | mirantis.com | 8 | enovance.com | 7 | ||
rackspace.com | 5 | cisco.com | 7 | kotori.zaitcev.us | 5 | ||
codestud.com | 4 | ibm.com | 4 | unitedstack.com | 2 | ||
intel.com | 4 | unitedstack.com | 3 | not.mn | 2 | ||
vmware.com | 3 | redhat.com | 3 | dmllr.de | 2 | ||
citrix.com | 1 | da.jp.nec.com | 2 | brim.net | 2 | ||
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My boyfriend asked me a prawn curry for dinner tomorrow. I have some curry sauce defrosting in the fridge from a previous chicken curry. It's just the sauce with no meat. I wouldn't want to throw it away as there is quite a bit.
Can I reuse it with prawns for a new curry or I'll have to start again from scratch?
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Behind my desk at home lives a box. Inside the box lurks my financial life, organized within tabs like "Bank accounts," "Car stuff," "Receipts," "Investments," "Tax things," "Insurance," "Misc." and "VERY IMPORTANT." This is the box I will grab first if my apartment ever catches fire.
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- Receipts: I save receipts in case I need to return things. I'm pretty sure, however, that Banana Republic isn't going to take back that dress I bought in 2009. All 61 receipts in the box went into the shredder.
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The mailman also brought my new print from The Black Apple. It is titled, "A good egg is hard to find." Daniel is most definitely my good egg. The artist had a benefit sale of her prints to raise money for her kitty's vet bill. I had to help and my arm didn't need to be twisted.
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Amy sent me the cutest notebook and pen. Dan and I are starting our SouthBeach Diet (again) tomorrow and I plan to use this lovely notebook to document everything I eat. I love it. Thank you for thinking of me Amy.
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It's fun to get mail once in a while. I'm glad you have a use for your new little book.
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Way to support the kitty. I love that. Kitties are there for each other.
Amy is so thoughtful. I really like where you put your new egg print. Someday I hope I find a good egg. Once mom came to visit me in Az and she gave me a hardboiled egg that was no longer good. It was horrible. That reminds me of my love life. So, someday I hope I find my good egg, becasue the bad ones are really bad. Gosh, that was random.
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A review by Paul Kincaid
What Alastair Reynolds does in this new novel is the small scale, the slow, the low-key decay we've come to associate
with steampunk. It is hardly playing to his strengths. So it is perhaps not too surprising that this is one of his
less successful novels.
We start in what could be any western city anytime in the last half century or so, which is about as advanced as the
technology gets anywhere in this novel. Except that this isn't some familiar here and now, it is a city perched part
way up a massive spire known as Spearpoint. And at the very edge of the city an apparently dead angel is
found. Angels come from higher up Spearpoint where a more advanced technology is possible, but every so often one
ends up in the city and, when they do, they are taken to Quillon. Quillon is a pathologist who has been making a
study of angels; but this one isn't quite dead, rather he has undertaken a suicide mission in order to get a
message to Quillon. The message is: flee.
Quillon, we discover, is himself an angel who has been surgically retrofitted so he can survive in the lower
technological levels of Spearpoint. Part of a secret mission that went wrong, it now seems he is privy to some
vital knowledge that even he is unaware of, and certain forces are after him. When we do, eventually, learn the
secret, it is after we have been faced with other, bigger mysteries, so that this particular revelation feels like
no more than a casual afterthought, a device to get the plot moving and no more. And Quillon does indeed run, to
his only friend in the city, a former cop turned underworld boss, who in turn introduces him to Meroka, a feisty
woman who will guide him away from Spearpoint.
So much happens in the first thirty-odd pages of this nearly 600-page novel, and it promises much: pace, intrigue,
mysterious technology.
Except that the novel rarely again matches this frantic piling of incident upon revelation; the revelations never
live up to the mysteries that have preceded them; and Meroka leads Quillon down to less developed technologies not
up to more advanced levels. At every opportunity, it seems, Reynolds chooses the path that will take him away from
what he does best.
There are, of course, hair's-breadth escapes, gutsy fight scenes, unfeasible coincidences throughout the rest of
the novel, and one or two moments where Reynolds does achieve an authentic sense of wonder.
Yet somehow the moment Quillon starts his escape, the pace seems to slow, the wonders seem familiar, and the novel
fails to take flight.
We journey down Spearpoint, through a steam-powered city and out into a wilderness of wild gangs known as
Skullboys. Here Quillon and Meroka rescue a strange woman and her daughter, then are themselves taken up by the
Swarm, once Spearpoint's military arm (though it is hard to think of anything as diverse as Spearpoint being
coherent enough to ever have a single military arm) now an independent flying city of dirigibles. Quillon is
immediately accepted by the upper echelons of Swarm, finds himself inadvertently entangled in rebellion, and
becomes the saviour of Spearpoint when a call for help brings the Swarm back to the spire. All of this contains
action enough, and there is sheer enchantment when the Swarm flies across a wasteland of downed aircraft then
visits the ruined sister to Spearpoint (though these scenes, a match for anything in Reynolds's previous
novels, are tangential to, indeed practically irrelevant to the rest of the plot). But I, for one, kept feeling
I'd been here before. The Swarm is a transformation of the floating city in China Miéville's
The Scar (and anyway, dirigibles now seem de rigueur in any contemporary steampunk, see, for
example, Cherie Priest's Boneshaker); the Skullboys are straight out of Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley
or the Mad Max movies; Spearpoint could be every monumental structure from Ted Chiang's Tower of
Babel to Robert Silverberg's Monad.
Perhaps the most familiar aspect of this novel is the major element in the whole construct. The reason technology
is less advanced the lower on Spearpoint one is, is because the world is divided into zones.
Cross a boundary in one direction and you find complex electronics become possible, cross it the other way and
you're back in the steam age. This feels to me like another iteration of the Zones of Thought from Vernor
Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, except it is set in a smaller compass. Where Reynolds differs from Vinge
is that the boundaries between the zones have become unstable: you don't need to cross a boundary, the boundary
may simply cross you.
This is a neat idea, and it's what drives the whole plot, but I kept feeling that Reynolds hadn't really
thought it through. Right at the beginning, the angel manages to give Quillon a gun which works one way in
his current zone, but works another way in lower technological zones. This is an interesting device that we
see Quillon use twice, in two different zones so we notice the difference; then it is abandoned, and this whole
possibility of transzonal technology is never mentioned again. And in the best moment in the novel, as the
Swarm flies over a wasteland that has been made accessible for the first time in centuries owing to a shift
in the zones, we see the desert floor littered with strange abandoned aircraft representing different levels
of technology. The inhabitants of what we soon realise is the twin of Spearpoint had clearly, over what may
well be generations, been making desperate attempts to escape while their technological ability declined
inexorably. It is a heartbreaking moment that suggests a tragic past, but Reynolds does nothing to develop
this any further. It is as if the novel is made up of a sequence of images suggested by the core idea of
these technological zones, but this sequence is never connected into a coherent, solidly built
world. Consequently the book feels only half complete, there's an interesting idea but Reynolds hasn't yet
worked out how to make it into a fully-imagined setting for a story.
At various times during the reading of this novel, I became convinced that it was only the first volume
in a sequence. There's too much here that feels like it needs further explanation (how and why the zones
came about, for instance), or that is ignored (we never see the advanced technological realm of the
angels). Yet the story comes to a conclusion that warrants no sequel. There's a lot of hand-waving at the
end that really makes no sense, but you don't get the impression that this story needs to continue. It's
just that this is a half-formed, not fully thought-out novel that never comes close to achieving what it promises.
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Brooke Fraser
Brooke Fraser | |
Fraser during the NZ Fashion Week 2010
Background information | |
Birth name | Brooke Gabrielle Fraser |
Born | Wellington, New Zealand |
15 December 1983
Origin | Wellington, New Zealand |
Genres | Pop |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instruments | Vocals, piano, guitar |
Years active | 2002–present |
Labels | Sony Music, Vagrant, Play On, Time, Wood + Bone |
Website | www |
Brooke Gabrielle Fraser Ligertwood, better known as Brooke Fraser (born 15 December 1983), is a New Zealand musician best known for her third studio album Flags, and hit single "Something in the Water". Fraser is one of the top selling and most popular recording artists of all time in New Zealand, her albums being awarded 15x platinum to date. Her album, Brutal Romantic, was released in November 2014.[1]
Early life[edit]
Fraser is the eldest of three children born to former All Black Bernie Fraser,[2] who was born in Lautoka, Fiji, and his wife Lynda Fraser.[3] Her father is of Fijian, Portuguese and Scottish descent.[4] Brooke grew up in Naenae, Lower Hutt and attended Dyer Street School, Naenae Intermediate School and Naenae College.[5]
Fraser took piano lessons between the ages of seven and seventeen. She started writing songs at age twelve and taught herself the acoustic guitar at fifteen.
She began writing for the Soul Purpose magazine at age fifteen, and was later made editor in 2002. She gave up her job as editor shortly after moving to Auckland in late 2002 in order to pursue her music career.[6]
Musical career[edit]
In 2002, at the age of 18, Brooke signed a multi album deal with Sony Music, after a fierce bidding war between labels.[7]
What to Do With Daylight[edit]
Fraser's first album, What to Do with Daylight, was released in New Zealand in late 2003, debuting at number one and achieved gold status in the same week. The album eventually went seven times platinum,[8] selling over 105,000 copies in New Zealand alone.[9] It remained on the album charts for sixty-six weeks.[10] All five singles from the album reached the top twenty in the New Zealand Singles Chart.[11] Her album also topped the New Zealand Top 50 Albums for all of 2004.[12] The album also achieved gold status in Australia.[citation needed]
Following the release of What to Do with Daylight, Fraser toured Australia and New Zealand with American artist John Mayer and then toured New Zealand with veteran U.K. rock artist David Bowie.[13][14]
In 2005, prior to writing and preparing her follow-up album, Fraser took a trip to Rwanda before visiting her World Vision sponsor children in Tanzania. Brooke wrote the song Albertine about a young genocide victim (named Albertine), whom she met while in Rwanda. This song became her second album's title track.[15]
For this album, Fraser decided to enlist a new band of American session musicians who'd worked with an array of notable artists, both live and recorded.[16] In 2006, Fraser and the band went into the studio in Los Angeles to record the album with producer Marshall Altman. The first single Deciphering Me reached number four in the New Zealand single charts in 2006.
On 4 December 2006 Albertine (the album) was released in New Zealand, achieving double platinum status less than a month after its release. The album was released in Australia and internationally on 31 March 2007. In Australia, it charted at number twenty-nine in its first week on 9 April and has achieved Gold sales status.
Albertine was also Brooke's U.S. debut, released on 27 May 2008. It entered the Billboard 200 at number ninety on 19 July 2008. The album was propelled by online sales after being chosen as Editor's Choice on iTunes.[17] In 2008 Brooke undertook a major world tour culminating the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Sheppard's Bush Empire in London, UK. Albertine (the single) won the prestigious APRA Silver Scroll for Song of the Year in 2007.
Flags was recorded at East West Studios in Hollywood in the summer of 2010[18] and released on 12 October 2010, in New Zealand, Australia and North America. Fraser celebrated with sold out tours in all territories. Flags reached the No. 1 spot on the New Zealand album chart,[19] No. 3 in Australia,[20] and entered at No. 59 on the Billboard 200 in the US,[21] and climbed as high as No. 3 on the U.S iTunes album chart. Flags has been certified Gold in Australia and 3x Platinum in New Zealand, where it was also the 6th highest selling album of 2010.[22] The first single, Something in the Water, has achieved extensive radio success across the globe, notably receiving BBC Radio 2 A-list rotation in the top 10 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Finland and Belgium and is a gold single in Germany and Italy.[23] The single achieved double platinum sales in NZ where it spent 21 weeks in the 2010 singles chart.[24] Flags was released in July 2011 in Europe and debuted in the album charts at No. 6 in Germany, No. 33 in Austria & No. 24 in Switzerland. One month on from release, Flags remained in the German top 20 at No. 13 and Something in the Water on the singles charts at No. 8. Flags was released in October 2011 in Hungary, reaching No. 15 on the national album chart by second week of release.[25] Flags was later released in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland on 7 November in 2011.[26]
In its review of Flags, Glide Magazine said: "Brooke Fraser's third release, Flags, is a wonder. From the stunning lyrical imagery throughout to the impressive guest vocalists who join her (Cary Brothers, Jon Foreman and Aqualung among them), from Fraser's ethereal and breathy performances to the wide-ranging soundscapes, this record is drenched in beauty and stands as one of the more remarkable achievements of 2010."[27]
Brutal Romantic[edit]
On 13 August 2014, Fraser released a "taster track" titled Psychosocial, on SoundCloud.[28] The song marked a radical shift in musical direction for Fraser, as she moves from more acoustic and singer-songwriter based tunes to more electronic sounds. Her new single Kings and Queens went to radio on 22 September 2014, and was available for digital download on 26 September 2014. On 1 October she announced Brutal Romantic would follow in November.[1][29] The album was released in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia on 14 November 2014 and in North America on 17 November 2014. The album was produced by Brooke Fraser and David Kosten, except the track Magical Machine which was produced by Fraser, Kosten and Dan Wilson.[30]
Personal life[edit]
After the success of her first album, Fraser moved to Sydney in 2004. On 17 March 2008 she married Scott Ligertwood, in Sydney, changing her name to Brooke Ligertwood.[31] "Brooke Fraser" has remained her stage name for her career.[citation needed] In March 2015, Fraser announced she was pregnant with their first child.[32]
Fraser has enjoyed success in her career for many years, and she has always used her position to highlight many worthy causes and charity projects, and raising large amounts of money for them in the process. In late 2010 whilst on tour in the U.S. promoting her third album Flags, Fraser, in conjunction with charity: water ran a birthday campaign asking her fans to donate $27 in honour of her 27th birthday. The goal was to raise $50,000 to build clean water wells in Ethiopia.[33] Joining the likes of Justin Bieber,[34] Will Smith[35] and Adam Lambert[36] Fraser's birthday campaign raised over $54,000. She has vowed to continue her work with charity: water on future projects.
Fraser has worked with World Vision as an Artist Associate since 2001. She has visited Cambodia and Tanzania with World Vision, the Philippines with Opportunity International and independently travelled to Rwanda in June 2005, in June 2006 as part of charity event "Hope Rwanda", and in May 2007 when she filmed the music video for the song "Albertine" off her second studio album of the same name. She also sponsors eleven children through World Vision and makes child ways of contributing to the work of World Vision (i.e. fundraising T-shirts etc.).
She was one of many New Zealand performers to work alongside popular New Zealand comedy band Flight of the Conchords in their 2012 New Zealand Red Nose Day charity song "Feel Inside (and stuff like that)".[citation needed]
- Studio albums
- What to Do with Daylight (2003)
- Albertine (2006)
- Flags (2010)
- Brutal Romantic (2014)
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2004[37] | Brooke Fraser for "Better" | Most Performed Work in New Zealand | Won |
2007[37][38][39] | Brooke Fraser for "Deciphering Me" | Won | |
APRA Silver Scroll | Nominated | ||
Brooke Fraser for "Albertine" | Won | ||
2011 | Brooke Fraser and Scott Ligertwood for "Something in the Water" | Most Performed Work in New Zealand | Won |
2013 | Won | ||
Brooke Fraser and Scott Ligertwood for "Something in the Water" | Most Performed Work Overseas | Won |
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2004[40] | — | People's Choice Award | Nominated |
What To Do With Daylight | Album of the Year | Nominated | |
Best Female Solo Artist | Won | ||
Breakthrough Artist of the Year | Won | ||
"Lifeline" | Single of the Year | Nominated | |
Songwriter of the Year | Nominated | ||
2004 | — | People's Choice Award | Nominated |
2007 | |||
Albertine | Album of the Year | Nominated | |
Best Female Solo Artist | Nominated | ||
Highest Selling Album | Won | ||
"Deciphering Me" | Single of the Year | Nominated | |
Airplay Record of the Year | Won | ||
2009[41] | — | International Achievement | Won |
2011 | Flags | Album of the Year | Nominated |
2011 | Flags | Best Pop Album | Won |
2011 | — | Best Female Solo Artist | Nominated |
2011 | "Something In the Water" | Single of the Year | Won |
2011 | — | People's Choice Award | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
2009 | — | Female Vocalist of the Year | Nominated |
- ^ a b "Kiwi Brooke Fraser unleashes new sound". Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ Hurley, Bevan (7 March 2010). "Singer's Hollywood sojourn turns ugly". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Monk, Felicity (6–12 March 2004). "Brooke Fraser". New Zealand Listener 192 (3330). Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Quinn, Keith (21 January 2010). "Quinn: Bill McLaren, goodbye to a legend". Television New Zealand. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
- ^ "Brooke Fraser Biography". BiggestStars.com. Archived from the original on 19 July 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Smithies, Grant (6 August 2007). "A close encounter with Brooke Fraser". Sunday Star-Times. Archived from the original on 19 July 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Hobbs, Rick (2003). "Fast Tracking Brooke Fraser". NZ Musician. Archived from the original on 20 July 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "What To Do With Daylight: ABR". Marbecks. Archived from the original on 19 July 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "Chart Facts". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Archived from the original on 11 July 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Brooke Fraser – What to Do with Daylight". Hung Medien. charts.org.nz. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Brooke Fraser in New Zealand charts". Hung Medien. charts.org.nz. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "New Zealand Top 50 Albums of 2004". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. charts.org.nz. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Basics". brookefraser.net. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Brooke Fraser". muzic.net.nz. Archived from the original on 20 July 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Brooke Fraser". Brooke Fraser. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
- ^ The NewsTours Page on Fraser's website indicates her band's history.
- ^ "Brooke Fraser puts a Kiwi note into US charts". The New Zealand Herald. 21 July 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
- ^ "Brooke Fraser – Flag Bearer". Flush The Fashion. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
- ^ "RIANZ". RIANZ. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
- ^ "ARIA Chart News for week commencing 18 October 2010". the AU review. 18 October 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
- ^ "Brooke Fraser Album & Song Chart History". Billboard.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
- ^ "Flags – NZ albums chart 2010". RIANZ. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "Radio 2 – Playlist". BBC. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
- ^ ""Something In the Water" – RIANZ". RIANZ. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "Flags – Hungary Albums Chart". mahasz. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "Flags – November 2011 European Releases". Brooke Fraser Official Website. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ "CD Review, Brooke Fraser, Flags". Glide Magazine. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
- ^ Yap, Timothy (14 August 2014). "Hillsong's Brooke Fraser Returns with Psychosocial; Hear Her New Song Here". Hallels. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ^ "Brooke Fraser - Timeline Photos - Facebook".
- ^ "NZ Herald: New Zealand's Latest News, Business, Sport, Weather, Travel, Technology, Entertainment, Politics, Finance, Health, Environment and Science". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ^ "NZ Girl". nzgirl.
- ^ "How Brooke Fraser announced her pregnancy". The New Zealand Herald. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ "Brooke's 27th birthday". Mycharitywater.org. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
- ^ "Justin's 17th Birthday". Mycharitywater.org. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
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Environmental change resulting from human actions
Henry William Herbert: Species Change and Human Actions
Henry William Herbert, who often wrote as "Frank
Forester", was an English immigrant and a famous
writer of hunting stories in the 1830's through the
He came to Warwick regularly and wrote a
Warwick Woodlands,
about his adventures
here. Although a reckless and avid hunter, he
lamented the loss of species and habitat in Warwick,
and ended his life as an advocate for conservation.
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement
The hunting ethic of
the early 19
was that nature was
something to be
conquered, but by the
end of the century, so
much had been
destroyed that the
idea of conservation
began to take hold.
Warwick was on the migratory flight path of the passenger
pigeon, now extinct:
"Pigeons were very plentiful in the early days of the town. Sometimes
the air seemed almost darkened with the immense flocks of these
birds. A farmer living near the village one morning bagged ninety-six
in a short time in the woods."–
Under Old Rooftrees, 1908
"Uncle Lewis said when the thousands of passenger pigeons passed
over on their migration, the ground was darkened over like a huge
cloud. He was of the opinion they got a disease which wiped them
out. Barrels of them were sent to the city and they sold for 25c each.
There were so many thousands of them their weight from lighting in
the trees would break the limbs off. –
Roy Vail, 1976
Passenger Pigeon
Henry William Herbert
(pen name
Frank Forester
) (April 3, 1807 - May 17, 1858), was an English novelist and writer on sport.
The son of the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, Dean of Manchester (himself the son of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon), Herbert was born in London.
He was educated at Eton College and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1830. To escape his debts, he emigrated to the United States, and from 1831 to 1839 taught Greek in a private school in New York City. In 1833 he started the
American Monthly Magazine
, which he edited, in conjunction with A. D. Patterson, till 1835.
In 1834 he published his first novel,
The Brothers: a Tale of the
, which was followed by a number of others that achieved popularity
It was here (at Glenmere Lake)
that I saw the great flights of wild pigeons. I have watched them for hours, flying overhead - all going in one direction. Their flights were usually in the spring". –George W. Parkinson, Warwick Dispatch 5/13/1914
"Pigeons were very plentiful in the early days of the town. Sometimes the air seemed almost darkened with the immense flocks of these birds. A farmer living near the village one morning bagged ninety-six in a short time in the woods. They had settled so thickly on the trees and bushes that he clubbed many down, wrung the necks of some, and every shot brought down numbers. Savory potpies, stews, broils and genuine pigeon-pies, in which the birds predominated over the crust, were plentiful in the humblest homes." –
Under Old Roof trees
"The feathers of pigeons (very plentiful in their season in early days)[14] were commonly cured and put in beds and pillows, and a superstition reigned that no poor soul could take easy flight from its lifelong house of clay if a
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First there were three.
Mere weeks after escaping Neverwinter, Farideh's dreams are still haunted by Lorcan, the cambion devil whose power fuels her own. One of only four known descendants of the original Brimstone Angel, Farideh has no regrets about the pact she made with the devil. But no one in the Hells knows that she has a twin - an impulsive, eager sister just waiting to be corrupted. At least as long as Lorcan can keep her secret.
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Determined to protect her sister, Farideh searches for a ritual that could call Lorcan out of the Hells, but in the midst of her hunt, she's drawn into an assignment for the secret society of the Harpers, an assignment which leads her and a ragtag group of allies to an ancient Netherese library deep underground.
The fifth one is mine.
While the group combs the site, dodging ghosts and magical traps, Farideh discovers a magical book whose pronouncements throw into question everything she thought she knew about herself and her sister. The more the Book gives up its macabre secrets, the more one thing becomes clear - a traitor lurks among them.
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| Wikipedia is accurate says, er, Wikipedia study A Wikipedia-sponsored 'pilot study' has praised the online Encyclopaedia's accuracy and claims that it is better than Encyclopaedia Britannica. For the record, if you wrote a page on Wikipedia about yourself, you would find that one of its teams of editors had deleted it for being advertising. However when Wikipedia commissions a study into itself and reports that it is wonderful, this is apparently ok. The Wikimedia Foundation last November enlisted the e-learning company Epic and researchers from Oxford University to conduct what would be the first organised look at Wikipedia's accuracy. Before that, a 2005 report by Nature, showed Wikipedia had at least four mistakes per article in comparison to three for Encyclopaedia Britannica. The results indicate that Wikipedia articles scored higher in each of three languages, and fared well in categories of accuracy and references. English Wikipedia fared well against Encyclopaedia Britannica in terms of accuracy, references and overall judgement. What makes us smell a rat is that the report said that there were little differences between the two on style and overall quality score. We were not aware that the Encyclopaedia Britannica articles were penned by a person with a crayon, like some of the wikipedia articles appear to have been. Nor does the Encyclopaedia Britannica employ people with faked doctorates or fake penis experts. Epic states in its own press release that Wikipedia articles emerge commendably. One of its advantages is that Wikipedia articles were more up to date than other articles and were generally considered to be better referenced. Furthermore, they appeared to be at least as strong as other sources in terms of comprehensiveness, lack of bias and even readability. You can read the report here http://news.techeye.net/internet/wik...ikipedia-study |
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In this paper I discuss some of the ethical issues relating to the use of mobile technologies in education. I argue that the frames of reference used by educators and technologists fail to capture the nature, scope and impact of ethical issues in mobile learning. A taxonomy of ethical issues based on dominant positions in meta-ethical moral theory is proposed. Using categories from the Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning (MOTILL) project, I show how this taxonomy can be applied in such a way as to facilitate understanding of ethical issues in mobile learning.
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I am using "Class Table Inheritance" and this are my entities.
** * @Entity * @Table (name="Vehicles") * @InheritanceType ("JOINED") * @DiscriminatorColumn (name="vehicleClass", type="string") * @DiscriminatorMap ({"own"="OwnCar", "renta"="RentedCar"}) */ class Vehicle { /** * @Id * @Column (name="vehicleID", type="integer") */ protected $vehicleID; /** * @Id * @Column (name="dateFrom", type="datetime") */ protected $dateFrom; ......... }
/** * @Table (name="OwnCars") * @Entity (repositoryClass="OwnCarRepo") */ class OwnCars_Model_Entity_OwnCar extends OwnCars_Model_Entity_Vehicle { }
As you can see i am using composed id keys. The problem that i get is when building the insert statement the value for the second key which is type datetime is not transformed to date transformed but cast to integer and in the data base i got inserted value of 0000-00-00 00:00:00 instead of the date that i have given. After i did a bit of debugging i found the problem to be in the "Doctrine\ORM\Persisters\JoinedSubclassPersister" on line 163.
foreach ((array) $id as $idVal) { $stmt->bindValue($paramIndex++, $idVal); }
As you can see when you are binding the values for the subtable ids you are not giving the type for the id. So for me to work i did a quick fix:
foreach ((array) $id as $columnNameIdentifier => $idVal) { /** * Fix untyped join inherited table. * All identifiers was typed now. */ $type = \PDO::PARAM_STR; if (isset($this->_columnTypes[$columnNameIdentifier])) { $type = $this->_columnTypes[$columnNameIdentifier]; } $stmt->bindValue($paramIndex++, $idVal, $type); }
I hope that you will have time to take a look in to that problem soon as it is important for my project. Otherwise great work so far with the "ORM"
Have a nice day,
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I am a geezer (don't ask!), retired, with a home base in the beautiful Hill Country of Texas. I have been enjoying traveling the country (including Alaska), in my Casita RV, while pursuing my longtime hobby of photography. I do some teaching of Digital Imaging at one of our local JR. Colleges, and am active in local computer and photography clubs. |


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Airline schedules, food inspections, IRS taxpayer assistance and deployments of Navy ships could all be hampered by the government's automatic spending cuts.
But President Barack Obama's health care law – a program Republicans have spent the past three years trying to kill – will roll out on time, the administration says.
Only a small fraction of the $1.6 trillion the Affordable Care Act spends to cover the uninsured over the next decade is subject to the so-called sequester. The cuts were to go into effect Friday.
"Consumers in every state will have access (to coverage) when open enrollment begins on Oct. 1, 2013," Health and Human Services spokeswoman Erin Shields Britt told The Associated Press.
Health and Human Services, the government department putting the law into place, says it doesn't have final estimates of the effect the budget cuts will have on its employees.
But the department says it is working to prepare for the reductions in a way that minimizes the impact on its mission.
HHS already oversees Medicare and Medicaid, which provide coverage to about 100 million people. The new law will add another 30 million people to the coverage rolls.
"It's galling that Obamacare is not being touched," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, a veteran of the 1990s budget struggles that forced a partial government shutdown.
Delaying the rollout of the health care law for two years could have saved enough money to take the place of the sequester, he said.


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Our seventh annual Best Cities For Singles contains some significant changes. First, because we are using a different U.S. census definition of "city" this year, four cities have been removed from consideration (Charlotte, Greensboro, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham) and have been replaced with four new cities (Jacksonville, Buffalo,Memphis and Baltimore). Second, for the first time in four years there is a new number one city: San Francisco. New York City also places in the top two for the first time. And finally for most of the cities on the list we have selected a "most eligible" bachelor and bachelorette.More… Complete methodology
Rankings compiled by: David M. Ewalt; Design: Nina Gould ; Photo Research: Jane Colihan; Reported by: Nicholas Ciani, Noni Durrani, Anup Kaphle, Katia Menegon, and Lacey Rose
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